You can, but it is a pain in the harris because the vinyl is naturally hydrophobic so it will not easily get into the grooves. A surfactant (wetting agent) allows the liquid to get into the grooves. IPA reduces the surface tension somewhat but you would need to add more and therein lies the problem. Kleen Green is available easily and some swear by it. Just a couple of drops in half a litre of IPA/Water works wonders and is better than sunlight etc.

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Ok, so finally I got everyrhing together, thanks to Matt (Mahleu) for an idler drive with no arm, plinth etc. 'Plinthed' on four plastic legs, rubber mat cut from a beer towel on top of an old wool mat (so record is at worst touching wool but usually rubber), record weight fashoned from a piece of scrap and prattleys putty. Then a handheld vac with silicone tape over the end and a slit for sucking out the liquid. And does it work? Well Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds seem to think so as did a von Karajan comp which was in a box in a garage for some years. The records are clean as a whistle.

Simple RCM!

Red mister has croak's RCM fluid in it. Yellow has distilled water, I use a natural bristle paint brush to loosen everything and do wash and rinse with suction after each, then a dab with microfibre cloth to remove any remaining liquid then an air dry before playing (just pop them propped up against a cushion).

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Sunlight liquid and a sponge. Moisten the sponge and squeeze of excess water. One or two drops of sunlight dishwashing liquid and wipe the record following the grove of the record. Rinse record under tap and and place vertically to dry.

Careful now, you'll start the RCM fluid recipe wars again. I'd switch out the sunlight for isopropyl alcohol and a drop of Kleen Green, and the aponge for a soft brush followed by a rinse with distilled water and air drying.

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Sunlight liquid and a sponge. Moisten the sponge and squeeze of excess water. One or two drops of sunlight dishwashing liquid and wipe the record following the grove of the record. Rinse record under tap and and place vertically to dry.

I do this every time if i want to clean a record. It works well.

Disaster 1 and 2. Sunlight leaves thick gunk behind that clogs up the stylus solidly after 3 sides playback, municipal water is chlorinated and contains calcium and in some cases iron oxide from old pipes. You don't want any of that anywhere near your LPs.

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Careful now, you'll start the RCM fluid recipe wars again. I'd switch out the sunlight for isopropyl alcohol and a drop of Kleen Green, and the aponge for a soft brush followed by a rinse with distilled water and air drying.

"A" !

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All ingredients available at Dischem too. I tend to get distilled water from work though (we have a still in the lab which unfortunately cannot be upgraded to Potcheen production unlike the one we had going when I was a student). Brush from any art store. I think that should be an A+ at least.

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All ingredients available at Dischem too. I tend to get distilled water from work though (we have a still in the lab which unfortunately cannot be upgraded to Potcheen production unlike the one we had going when I was a student). Brush from any art store. I think that should be an A+ at least.

Nope. For an A+ you need to add a few drops of Ilford Ilfotol (wetting agent) so that your cleaning solution can actually get into the grooves!

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